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Lenape (Delaware)

1524 – present
Native nationNorth America

The peoples of Lenapehoking — the lower Hudson, western Long Island, New Jersey and the Delaware valley.

Not an ending: pushed out of Lenapehoking by the 1758 Treaty of Easton, the Lenape dispersed in stages through Ohio, Indiana (ceded 1818), and Missouri, reaching Kansas by 1837 and Indian Territory in the 1860s, while a Munsee-speaking branch left for Ontario after the American Revolution. Their descendants hold federally/nationally recognized land today as the Delaware Nation and Delaware Tribe of Indians in Oklahoma, three First Nations in southwestern Ontario, and (via the related Munsee) a share of the Stockbridge-Munsee Community reservation in Wisconsin.

Borders in 2026 · drawn from 5 sourced border frames
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Borders over time

The atlas holds 5 border frames for Lenape (Delaware) — the shape you scrub through changes in 1524 · 1665 · 1737 · 1754 · 1800.

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